The outlines of physics: an elementary text-book (1897)
Nichols, E. L. (Edward Leamington), 1854-1937 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., Ltd. · leaf 392
the mirror will diverge. (See Fig. 349.) REFLECTION AND BEFRACTION 377 The convex mirror has no very important application inoptics, but concave mirrors are much used. In reflectingtelescopes, real images of stars and other distant objects,formed by the use of such a mirror, are magnified… … Fig. 350. 342. Refraction. — When a ray of light falls upon anysurface, a portion of the ray penetrates the body. If thelatter be transparent, this portion of the-ray will be trans-mitted; if the body be opaque, the wave motion will bedestroyed and its energy converted into heat. We sayin such a…
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